![]() Subhi and Jimmie might both find a way to freedom, as their tales unfold. Every morning he shows the gifts to his mother, now barely responsive. Unable to read it, she relies on Subhi to unravel her own family's love songs and tragedies. Zana Fraillon draws the attention to the bone sparrow, a story written by Jimmie s mother, which the whole book revolves around. Bone Sparrow Zana Fraillon Disney-Hyperion Available NovemAmazon Barnes & Noble Goodreads Every night, Subhi slips out of the compound in the refugee camp and finds the treasures he believes the magical Night Sea brings him from his far away father. ![]() The most vivid story of all, however, is the one that arrives one night in the form of Jimmie, a scruffy, impatient girl who appears from the other side of the wires, and brings a notebook written by the mother she lost. The Night Sea brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. But as he grows, his imagination gets bigger too, until it is bursting at the limits of his world. Born in an Australian permanent detention centre after his mother fled the violence of a distant homeland, life behind the fences is all he has ever known. I lie in my bed, Queeny's feet pushing up against my cheek, and listen to the waves lapping at the tent." Subhi is a refugee. ![]() As red as the sun and as deep as the sky. "Sometimes, at night, the dirt outside turns into a beautiful ocean. ![]()
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